The superhero Alcaraz | Deported

Carlos Alcaraz is a flesh y hueso superhero. What this domain has achieved is huge, tremendous, unique. He finished with a legend en plena formed into a final epic in which he vivid (y vivimos con él) a montaña rusa of emotions, joys, nerves and, finally, disbelief. How does a 20-year-old boy resist the inhuman pressure to win against a genius like Novak Djokovic? How will you manage to conquer the garden of your home, in that central track where the Serbian has followed 10 years without knowing the rotation? How not only did he nudge her pulse, until he dejado us with the encogido heart gaining these Historical points with a globe or with a dejadita? ¿A dejadita in your first Wimbledon final? But what locura is this?

Los españoles (yen esto, tenemos que recordarlo, somos unos privilegeados) estamos mutando de piel. From the epic sufrida, agotadoramente peeled, by Rafael Nadal, to the uninhibited osadía of Carlos Alcaraz. We are witnessing an accelerated transition, because Nadal follows me too, even if he is watching, but Alcaraz’s so unusual talent does not understand places or roles. He touches now, he touches now, and no asusta la tarea. He is a type without brake, the abandonment of this Generation sin Miedo que va a tomar el relevo.

Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer won Wimbledon with 22 years; Novak Djokovic, with 24 years. Carlos Alcaraz has achieved it with 20 years (yes on his second Grand Slam), in the final primera, and before a genius who has made a deployment of tennis knowledge. Djokovic used all his talent: aggressive salida, theatrically widening the pause en los saques para dejarle claro a Alcaraz que jugaban en su jardín di lui; sus mejores trucos psicológicos of him (y son muchos); and an extraordinary tenis to place the balls in the stairs, in those lines where only the greatest live.

The key moment was the sudden death of the second set. Djokovic no había perdido ningún tie throughout the year. None. Ahí le vimos flojear por primera vez (lui envió dos bolas a la mitad de la red) e nos quedamos boquiabiertos al ver cómo Alcaraz lo ganaba con un restaurant parallele ejecutado sin effort aparente. It was a visa and no visa that changed the party.

El tenis entre humanos (esto aún no es replicable neither in videojuegos nor in artificial intelligence) is the cumbre of the drama. Y hoy hemos vivido During cinco horas various puntos de giro. Pasamos de un Alcaraz overflowed with a Djokovic rendered in el tercer set, para volver a encontrarnos con el serbio corriendo por each bola y llevándose el cuarto.

The fifth set seems like an impossible thing for a 20-year-old boy. How many times have we seen how the weight of history gave her the place Djokovic needed to double generations of hopefuls?

So this domingo didn’t happen. The extraordinary is that Carlos Alcaraz was aware of what he was doing. He knew how to unleash extraordinary diversions, he had unstoppable energy, he knew how to be dynamic on the track, he has a very special emotional intelligence. The lesson was received by Alcaraz in Paris, when he collapsed by the nerves before Djokovic and the calamities dominated them. Lesson learned. More more. Now not only did it not collapse, until it grew and enjoyed in the territory in which Djokovic and the biggest ones have no footing.

Her coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero, the one who knows her best, tells her with 5-4 and before sacar to earn: “¡Piensa!”. Think? ¿Where there is enormous confidence when in a situation where you tell your player that he thinks and sepas he goes to think how he goes to sacar and no he goes to enredar thinking in the historical walk that is a point of protagonist in the most sacred scenario of waiting?

Ya no hay duda possible. Carlos Alcaraz is a unique phenomenon. It is a compendium of Big Three. Of Federer’s extraordinary talent and Djokovic’s tactical and physical show, but also, and from this domingo which is very clear, of Nadal’s mental strength to overcome himself at any point. You are a superhero.

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